The Rose's Secret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCBCBDE FFFGHGHGII JJJKLKLKMM| When down the west the new moon slipped | A |
| A curved canoe that dipped and tipped | A |
| When from the rose the dewdropp dripped | A |
| As if it shed its heart's blood slow | B |
| As softly silent as a star | C |
| I climbed a lattice that I know | B |
| A window lattice held ajar | C |
| By one slim hand as white as snow | B |
| The hand of her who set me here | D |
| A rose to bloom from year to year | E |
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| I who have heard the bird of June | F |
| Sing all night long beneath the moon | F |
| I who have heard the zephyr croon | F |
| Soft music 'mid spring's avenues | G |
| Heard then a sweeter sound than these | H |
| Among the shadows and the dews | G |
| A heart that beat like any bee's | H |
| Sweet with a name and I know whose | G |
| Her heart that leaning pressed on me | I |
| A rose she never looked to see | I |
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| O star and moon O wind and bird | J |
| Ye hearkened too but never heard | J |
| The secret sweet the whispered word | J |
| I heard when by her lips his name | K |
| Was murmured Then she saw me there | L |
| But that I heard was I to blame | K |
| Whom in the darkness of her hair | L |
| She thrust since I had heard the same | K |
| Condemned within its deeps to lie | M |
| A rose imprisoned till I die | M |
Madison Julius Cawein
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